Sweatnbullets said:
As long as you know that that is who you are, you can build strategies around that lack of mindset.
I know what you mean, but I doubt if it's all the "pussification" of modern man. For me, it's just choice.
I have known, and unfortunately been, the kind of a guy who is edgy, with a bad temper. I still fight it, and I'd better be able to control it because I work with the public.
But in the final analysis,
it's just not the guy I want to be. Imagine sitting in a tavern, drinking with a buddy who is so tightly wound up you don't know if he's going to kiss you or kill you with the next sip of beer. And then some of your close friends point out to you that you have those same kind of bad days.
Oh, and the OCD and the anxieties! Yikes, you're a slave to the very image of the macho American man. And you fall for all of the trip-wires.
For example, you're tired and you want to go home, Some idiot yells "leaker" at you and you close the place down. You pay for it the next day with a tremendous headache and a royal chewing from your boss for poor performance.
Harley even had a 1971 advertising campaign for the new Sportster with the tag line "Pull The Trigger." We were lead around by the putz so badly that common SW 29's sold for three times their worth.
Sorry guys, I quit the race. Laugh at the electric starter on my bike all you want. Smirk because I might now only have one margarita
per year around Cinco de Mayo. Chuckle as I take my paycheck home to wife without cashing it. Guffaw to your heart's content that I quit my 'adult job' because it was too stressful.
I'm not the guy you want me to be. I'm the guy
I want to live with.
And I refuse to be egged on because I don't worship at the altar of testosterone anymore. Ya' know, call yourself a 'warrior' if that makes you happy. Just remember that every drunken townie wants a shot at the champ.